From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 15:36:45 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fall back to ascii if the locale module cannot be loaded.
X-Git-Tag: v3.0a1~447
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d78d3b4541e4549ef014325f965639ffbe962ea9;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Fall back to ascii if the locale module cannot be loaded.
---

diff --git a/Lib/io.py b/Lib/io.py
index 4ee7cef7198e..b24a21cf1d40 100644
--- a/Lib/io.py
+++ b/Lib/io.py
@@ -976,8 +976,13 @@ class TextIOWrapper(TextIOBase):
             except AttributeError:
                 pass
             if encoding is None:
-                import locale
-                encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
+                try:
+                    import locale
+                except ImportError:
+                    # Importing locale may fail if Python is being built
+                    encoding = "ascii"
+                else:
+                    encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding()
 
         self.buffer = buffer
         self._encoding = encoding